Reading T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding

by G. Atkins

Overview

This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230112483
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/17/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

G. DOUGLAS ATKINS Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA.

Table of Contents

The Critic as Medium Incarnation and the Art of Difficulty "Necessarye Coniunction": Eliot's Intra-textual Words What Manner of Thing? On Pattern, Design, and Form Learning to Read the World Rhyming, or Two Wor(l)ds Much Like Each Other The Rose, the Fire, and Love, or God Devised the Torment, Preventing Us Everywhere "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood" and Purgation or Purification Not Coterminous but One

Editorial Reviews

"Reading T.S. Eliot is original - part creative, part scholarly - and, perhaps most importantly, human." - Tod Marshall, Professor of English, Gonzaga University, USA

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